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ABOUT SUMMIT LEAGUE MEN'S BASKETBALLThrough 35 years of Division I athletics, The Summit League features men's basketball teams from eight member institutions: Denver, Fort Wayne, North Dakota State, Omaha, Oral Roberts, South Dakota, South Dakota State and Western Illinois with North Dakota becoming an official member for the 2018-19 season. For more information about the league, "See The Summit" by visitingwww.thesummitleague.org

University of South Dakota alum Todd Lee is returning to Vermillion to lead the Coyotes' men's basketball program.

Three Summit League men's basketball junior standouts (Fort Wayne's John Konchar, South Dakota'sMatt Mooneyand South Dakota State'sMike Daum) were named to the Lou Henson All-America Team; nation's top Division I mid-major players.

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If Sioux Fall would of been home to one of the schools (SD or SDSU), that school would be the largest U in the Dakotas.

Attendance would be interesting to see if the championship game is IPFW vs Western Illinois or Oral Roberts. Half the conference is a Dakota team with Omaha 2 1/2 hours away. Thats 5 "local" teams out of 9 total. Pretty good odds that attendance is going to skyrocket.

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Are they doing a whole redesign? Or just replacing the big sky logo with summit? I would love to see us either put the state outline and centercourt or the Hawk.

I would guess they would replace the script at the end with the new script that came out with the logo. North Dakota at one end, Fighting Hawks at the other. Summit leafu logo in the lanes and you would think a Fighting Hawks logo at mid court. I emailed the Ralph and as per Garth Wiedrich, the Marketing Manager at Ralph Engelstad Arena, he said "The floor in the Betty is being refinished this year so the logo will be incorporated with the new design." SO the logo will be there somewhere. Hopefully center court.

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Sioux Falls... Well, let's just say that on a clear day you can smell Sioux City

That’s fine and all but more people are going to travel to Sioux Falls than those that would travel to Boise for the tournament. Sioux Falls is a budding city with a nice downtown area and the Premier Center is a great place.

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The discussion on the merits of going to Sioux Falls brings to mind a true story:

I ran on SDSU's track team a long time ago in the NCC days. In that particular time, SDSU and UNI were the dominant track teams in the conference. During the spring of about my junior year, four guys from UND's track team showed up at the SDSU track practice. I knew one of the guys - competed against him -- good guy. He came up to me and inquired about whether our coach would approve of the four UND guys training with us that week. The coach said that was fine with him. I asked the UND guy I knew what they were doing in Brookings. He said they were on Spring Break. I couldn't believe it: "You came to Brookings for spring break?" The guy laughed and admitted they went "south" for a spring break trip,. He told me about the snow and weather when they had left Grand Forks a day or two before. Ouch.

True story.

The weather in Sioux Falls during the Summit League Tourney is usually -- but not always -- better by a long shot than the weather in Grand Forks. I've been to every Summit League Tourney since SDSU joined and will continue to go even if SDSU doesn't have a team in the tourney. I hope a lot of UND fans can make the annual trip. If you can get a room in the Sheraton Hotel attached to the convention center and the Premier Center, you can stay indoors the entire weekend and watch a lot of great basketball. I live about 90 minutes from Sioux Falls. Sioux Falls is a growing city with a lot of good restaurants etc.